Rant: Mac

[Maclowery]

I'm not gonna lie, I was ready to go to f'in war against luke before I read the text of this thread!

Next up: I make a thread called "Rant: luke" and then complain about Star Wars for awhile.

high five!

[Cronos]

I think the only way to fix your problem is to beat the [expletive] out of Justin Long.

I've been in favor of this for ages.

[lukethedrifter]

I'm not gonna lie, I was ready to go to f'in war against luke before I read the text of this thread!

Next up: I make a thread called "Rant: luke" and then complain about Star Wars for awhile.

high five!

I guess you're not familiar with a metaphor, beeyotch.

[lukethedrifter]

make a new user account, log in as them and see if it works.

If it works, you have a bad preference or setting in your account.

If it doesn't work, then you need to reinstall or update something.

didn't work. i uninstalled reinstalled and verified and it still crashes. WTF?? I think apple is the VW of computers.

So you logged in as the other user? What did you uninstall and reinstall? I'm not having any flash trouble on mine. I'm running OS 10.6.2, and the current Firefox and Safari. Flash version is 10,0,32,18.

If that's all matching on yours, and it doesn't work on the other user, then a file is corrupted somewhere. I'd try downloading and reinstalling just the flash plugin.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

I did login as other user. I did uninstall reinstall flashplayer. I'm running the lastest of everything. And I'm not the only one having the issue.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=786446

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... D=10195219


I can't even use gmail.

I should add that I have no problems if I uninstall flashplayer. Except that I can't see any video.



EDIT: unplugging everything, holding the power button in for 5 secs then restarting seems to have helped.

[ghostrunner]

make a new user account, log in as them and see if it works.

If it works, you have a bad preference or setting in your account.

If it doesn't work, then you need to reinstall or update something.

didn't work. i uninstalled reinstalled and verified and it still crashes. WTF?? I think apple is the VW of computers.

So you logged in as the other user? What did you uninstall and reinstall? I'm not having any flash trouble on mine. I'm running OS 10.6.2, and the current Firefox and Safari. Flash version is 10,0,32,18.

If that's all matching on yours, and it doesn't work on the other user, then a file is corrupted somewhere. I'd try downloading and reinstalling just the flash plugin.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

I did login as other user. I did uninstall reinstall flashplayer. I'm running the lastest of everything. And I'm not the only one having the issue.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=786446

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... D=10195219


I can't even use gmail.

I should add that I have no problems if I uninstall flashplayer. Except that I can't see any video.



EDIT: unplugging everything, holding the power button in for 5 secs then restarting seems to have helped.

That makes no sense to me. Weird. You do that for power/startup issues usually.

[lukethedrifter]

make a new user account, log in as them and see if it works.

If it works, you have a bad preference or setting in your account.

If it doesn't work, then you need to reinstall or update something.

didn't work. i uninstalled reinstalled and verified and it still crashes. WTF?? I think apple is the VW of computers.

So you logged in as the other user? What did you uninstall and reinstall? I'm not having any flash trouble on mine. I'm running OS 10.6.2, and the current Firefox and Safari. Flash version is 10,0,32,18.

If that's all matching on yours, and it doesn't work on the other user, then a file is corrupted somewhere. I'd try downloading and reinstalling just the flash plugin.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

I did login as other user. I did uninstall reinstall flashplayer. I'm running the lastest of everything. And I'm not the only one having the issue.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=786446

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 0&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... D=10195219


I can't even use gmail.

I should add that I have no problems if I uninstall flashplayer. Except that I can't see any video.



EDIT: unplugging everything, holding the power button in for 5 secs then restarting seems to have helped.

That makes no sense to me. Weird. You do that for power/startup issues usually.

That's what the apple chick had me do. System reset.

[TimeForGuinness]

What OS version are you running. I'm having no problems on my mac...but I've heard of some weird issues with Snow Leopard.

[Jocephus]

after owning an iPOD, i've come to hate mac...overrated if you ask me...PC not perfect, but neither is mac (though many people seem to think so)

also, i don't know how one could rant against luke skywalker...

[lukethedrifter]

What OS version are you running. I'm having no problems on my mac...but I've heard of some weird issues with Snow Leopard.

Whatever the latest one is. SL or 10.6.whatever.

[ThatGuy]

I had the exact same problem a few weeks after I upgraded to Snow Leopard, luke. I called Mac support and told them I was having an issue with Flash, and I spent 45 minutes on the phone to verify that I was right. Fun times.

In any case, I uninstalled and updated it about 5 five times, and it never solved the problem. As you already said, the only way to "fix" it was to remove the Flash plugin completely, but that's really irritating when so many websites use Flash content these days. This lasted about three weeks for me, and then randomly it started working again one day. I have no idea what I did, so I can't really pass any helpful advice along.